Who pays whom, per deployment model. Only Local puts an Operator in the money flow — Remote and Self-Service are billed and run by Alliance HQ (the founders, today) directly. Every figure below is editable.
Inputs
Customer pays
$once
$/mo
$/mo
Operator ↔ Alliance HQ
$/mo
homes
Who receives what
Customer pays, total
One-time, at setup
Recurring, monthly
Operator (across all its households)
Receives from customers /mo
Pays to HQ /mo
Operator net /mo
Alliance HQ
Receives from customer /mo
Receives from operator /mo
↳ per household served
HQ net /mo
Storefront — specialized hardware
New or refurbished units, shipped to the household. They choose to rent or own; margin is realized after shipping cost. Applies alongside any deployment model above.
$
$
Own
$
Profit per unit
Rent
$/mo
Payback period
How this scales — N × $
Exponential and linear growth, married together. Left is an Uber-style gig platform: a flat licensing royalty, fixed income for HQ. Right is the standard linear model: the aggressive, founder-labor-intensive early revenue that doubles as R&D — and runs the storefront. The exponential is the insurance for the profit; the profit is the seed for the exponential.
Exponential — N
Flat licensing royalty — fixed income for HQ, not a per-job cut
Operators keep 100% of their own book's upside → self-motivated to grow it
Orphaned households: HQ inherits & recoups if an operator stops servicing
Geo-redundancy and digital fingerprinting as the mesh densifies
Remote & Self-Service: direct Customer → HQ billing — founder-run, not operator-run
The aggressive early-revenue engine — grows the business and the margin now
Founder-labor-intensive by design: the hands-on work today is the product's R&D
Runs the hardware storefront (new/refurb, rent or own)
Enough N — enough nodes, operators, and mesh — and the guild can run its own sovereign internet, not just resell someone else's.
Bottom line — at N =
The macro split allocates N across the three models; each model's own numbers from the ledger above set its per-node rate. Multiplied separately, then summed.
Self-Service — households × /mo
Remote — households × /mo
Local — operators × /mo licensing
Grand total, Alliance HQ /mo
Annualized
Bottom line — one-time, at N =
Same split, for one-time setup revenue only: each model's setup fee to Alliance HQ (Local's setup goes to the Operator instead — $0 to HQ). Storefront revenue is broken out separately below, not counted here.
Self-Service — households × /unit
Remote — households × /unit
Local — operators × /unit (setup → Operator, not HQ)
Grand total, Alliance HQ, one-time
Bottom line — storefront, at N =
The storefront's own split, broken out so it isn't double-counted above: Rent (recurring) and Own (one-time profit), each applied per model the same way as the other bottom lines.
Recurring — Rent
Self-Service — households × /mo
Remote — households × /mo
Local — operators × /mo
Grand total, storefront rent /mo
Annualized
One-time — Own
Self-Service — households × /unit
Remote — households × /unit
Local — operators × /unit
Grand total, storefront Own, one-time
Bottom line — COGS, at N =
Everything above this card has been gross revenue. This is the direct hardware cost (cost + shipping per unit) behind the storefront numbers — the first real cost line.
Self-Service — households × /unit
Remote — households × /unit
Local — operators × /unit
Grand total COGS, one-time
Founder hours — at N =
Time, not money — until the hourly rate below converts it. Local is onboarding — founder ↔ operator, once per operator. Remote is founder labor, fully and ongoing. Self-Service is founder-run production and shipping — less than Remote, and once per unit.